Illustrations, maps, and article about the Pappan's Ferry, a ferry on the Kansas River at Topeka, Kansas established by Joseph Pappan (a French fur trader from Saint Louis) in 1842 originally for "the...

Photos and article about the news of the reprinting for sale of the Grinter pictorial map of Jackson County by the Jackson County Historical Society. Biographical information also about the map's creators,...

Geographers at the University of Missouri at Columbia have been working to create digital maps of those made by the state's first surveyors. ''In 1815, federally commissioned surveyors began blocking off...

Article gives information on how settlers populated Missouri in its early years as a territory. Includes Indian population facts as well as the French presence in the region. Also points out how and why...

Maps, illustration, and article about the continuing cycle of poverty and welfare recipients in "the southwest tip of Missouri" (including New Madrid and Cape Girardeau Counties, etc.) known as the "Bootheel,"...

History of the Pony Express that celebrates its 150 birthday April 3. The mail first came across Missouri on the train from Hannibal to St. Joseph where riders waited at Pikes Peak Livery Stables to begin...

This article was written at the time that Kansas City's KCI airport was built. It discusses the use of rapid transit to service the airport and downtown. A project was commissioned by the Kansas City Area...

General description of the underground railroads for fugitive slaves escaping from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Kansas in the 1850s-1860s, with maps, photos, and illustrations. Article...

Article about the Grinter family, including Sallie Cave Grinter, or Sallie Grinter, a teacher and artist, and the making of their "most authentic pictorial map ever completed of pioneer Jackson County."...

Article about the history of the Boon's Lick country, a region of central Missouri along the Missouri River named after its salt springs used by Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone in 1805. Description of the...

Two major railroad companies laid track across the width of Kansas in the 1860s and 1870s: the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Because of the large land grants...

Article about the role of the Spanish fortress of San Carlos in the defense of the fledgling town of Saint Louis, Missouri, from a "horde" of Indians at the time of the Revolutionary War in 1780, with...

Extensive article with photographs and color maps concerning the Battle of Prairie Grove which occurred in northwestern Arkansas on December 7, 1862, as well as other encounters in the general vacinity....